So I'm about due for my weekly post, especially considering I'm going to Andros tomorrow and I expect that Internet access won't be as convenient.

First let me remind everyone that I'm a big fat looser. I didn't go to any clubs last week. I finally went to the Zoo (the name of a club) for about 3 hours last night, and I didn't speak to anyone. I had 2 beers, I stood, I listened to the music, and I watched the crowd. Pretty tame stuff. It was a fun place, and I'd recommend it to anyone, but as much as I thought I wanted to get my groove on, when I got there I realized I ain't got no groove.

I should just rename this blog to 'My Summer Job.' I typically work an 8-hour day, though it's not a very difficult job. This week has been very quiet. I've spent most of my time puttering with the computers, and almost no time training. I swapped the back office computer with the owners' home computer, which also involved swapping the network card and CD burner. I got the 2 computers on the LAN to see each other again. I finally downloaded some CD burning software and created a simple backup system using batch files. And I figured out their 7-year old DOS-based reservations/billing software so I could purge out about 12,000 old records that were bogging down the software to a snail's pace. Note - If you didn't understand any of that, that's quite OK. In a nutshell, I puttered around with computers for a week.

I did go diving again this past Sunday, and it was the nicest diving yet (except for the shark dive). The first dive was a pretty standard wreck at about 45 feet, but it was a small bunch of divers so I took my buddy and went exploring a bit further out from the group. We were rewarded when we spotted a beautiful 6-foot nurse shark. I was about to tap her tail when she decided she had had enough of us and swam off. The second dive was no deeper than 20 feet, and it was described to us before-hand as a wreck. It was more of a debris field than a wreck. My navigation skills allowed us to do a big circle around the area without getting lost. We found another small nurse shark wedged under some wreckage, and tons of fish. I have never seen parrotfish so big. They were bigger than my head.

The coolest part of the dive was the very end. I was tired of swimming, we were almost right under the dive boat, and it was about time to surface. I decided to just sit down on the main portion of the wreckage and just watch the fish around me. I was looking at the wreckage in front of me, and I noticed a tiny spotted eel was staring back at me. I found this guy completely at random. Whoa.

So maybe I should say a bit more about my daily life. I've been a pretty happy camper this week because I got a remote for the TV. Evidently, the hotels keep the remotes at the front desk and normally give them out when you check in. At the first hotels, they didn't bother to give me a remote. Actually, they didn't bother to give me one at this hotel either, but I noticed the basket when I was working and asked about it.

All of the hotels have had either cable or satellite, and I'm talking about 50 or so channels. The funny thing is that they have most of the South Florida stations. Channel 7 news is pretty incredible. People used to joke that their motto was "If it bleeds, it leads." It's not really a joke. When there isn't enough crime locally, they have a segment called "Off the Satellite" where they talk about crime around the country. I think their new motto should be "Crime all the time." I think the point of network news is to scare people into never leaving their homes.

Speaking of leaving homes, I don't do much of that myself. I did walk around downtown Nassau once or twice this past week, But unless you're shopping for liquor, jewelry, or perfume, there isn't much to do in downtown Nassau. Although the library is around the corner, and I actually passed it last night, I wasn't interested in exploring. Like I said, I'm a looser. I haven't even used the hotel pool since my first week.

I think I'll be doing more of the sun and sand thing in Andros. The hotel I was at my first week was right on the water, and I expect that to be the norm in Andros.

I really should start working, so look for another post from me some time next week.